Eric Gordon

Eric Gordon

Eric Gordon is faculty in the College of Communication and the director of the Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact at Boston University. He studies civic technology and public participation in cities, and is the author (or editor) of five books and over 50 articles on participatory urban technology, including The Urban Spectator (Dartmouth, 2010), Net Locality (Blackwell, 2011), Civic Media (MIT Press, 2016), Ludics (Palgrave, 2021), and Meaningful Inefficiencies (Oxford, 2020). In addition to his scholarship, he has led dozens of collaborative design projects all over the world that bring the public and civic sectors together to foster democratic process with technology. His forthcoming book How Institutions Listen: Civic Data, AI, and the Path To Public Trust will be published by MIT Press in 2026.